LETTER: Coker only half right

David Coker made an strong case in his Jan. 28 column that, during this primary season, members of the Republican establishment are not listening to the average voter. However, I think he is only half right.

Coker knows you can only pick from the choices you are given, and I have heard what the good Republican congressmen who served with Newt Gingrich in the 1990s have to say about him. They portray Newt as an arrogant, amoral, self-promoting, narcissistic, egomaniac who couldn't organize an escape from a room with three open doors. Perhaps compared to that, the "establishment" feels Mitt Romney is not so bad.